I first want to
say I have no pictures for this post because I felt that this is a sensitive
topic and should not be glorified (not that the other people posting about this
are glorifying it, this is just how I feel). Going to Saschausen concentration camp was hard.
This place has such a horrid history of violence, murder, and pure evil. But if
found my feelings strange. I felt a sad for the thousands that suffered this
evil, but I mainly felt anger for those that were part of the leadership of
this camp. The SS and the other officers. I felt this rage of anger for the
actions committed here by these people. No human is worth more, and no human is
worth less than any other human. As I walked around, I tried to see what it
looked like back when it was being used and all I saw was pain. Pain, separation,
torture, death and suffering. This camp, like the others, I consider to be hell
on Earth. Because of this, I promise to be different. I promise to stand up for
the ones that need help. To stand in the way of those that try to oppress
others. I will use all of my power and my music to help change the world. I
want to end with two quotes that are relevent to this topic. The first from Leonard
Bernstein and the second, one I wrote a few years ago. I hope that you will
help me in changing the world. Thank you.
“This will be our
reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more
devotedly than ever before.”
“This is why I
believe in music. Not because it can affect or change the world, but because it
can affect the people that can change the world.”
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